Essay about A Comparison of Wuthering Heights and Heart of Darkness

Another great irony in the novel is the attitude Marlow ultimately adopts towards Kurtz. Marlow's beginning impressions from the various reports he has heard about Kurtz are very adverse. Yet, after the events have taken place, Marlow becomes an admirer of Kurtz harboring strong feelings of respect and friendship. The reader would expect Marlow to continue to react to Kurtz in the same adverse manner as the start of the novel, but the opposite occurs. Marlow becomes so attached to Kurtz that he uses all his powers of persuasion to bring Kurtz back to the ship. Marlow then tells the reader that he could “not betray Mr. Kurtz—it was ordered I should never betray him—it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice” (94). Thus Marlow has now become almost a follower of Kurtz knowing the full extent of the evil that prevails in Kurtz. Evidently, Marlow's own primitive instinct have come to the surface resulting in a bond between Kurtz and himself. So another civilized European man who is an embodiment of reason and sanity has fallen victim to the influences of savagery.

In Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, what first appears to be an overabundance of descriptions about a mansion in nineteenth century England easily turns into a myriad of sentiment, hatred, and love among the protagonists. The work can be classified as an unprecedented satire, using indirect actions of its characters to convey a forthright message regarding human misdeeds. The first few pages of the book presents two main characters, Mr. Heathcliff and Mr. Lockwood, where both serve an important role in intensifying the plot. They have nearly opposite personalities, as Heathcliff is a humble, reserved landlord while Lockwood is an arrogant, agitated fellow. It can also be inferred that through some of the actions Lockwood engages in that

The story is written as a diary for Mr. Lockwood, which means it is written in first person. In chapter one, Mr. Lockwood goes to Wuthering Heights after a few days new of being a tenant at Thrushcross Grange to visit his landlord, Mr. Heathcliff. “Thrush Grange is my own sir, ‘he interrupted, wincing. ‘I should not allow anyone to inconvenience me, if I could hinder it- walk in!” (pg. 368). Mr. Heathcliff does not go out of him way to be pleasant to Lockwood as you can see from the way he talked to him in the quote. He even nods his head when Lockwood ask if he is Mr. Heathcliff. “Wuthering’ being significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather” (pg. 369). This quote tells about Wuthering and how it is used to describe rough winds that blow. The way this story is wrote compares to Emma in that they are both hard for me to comprehend what I am reading. I have to go back over it a few times to make sure I get the true meaning and understand what the story is

            However, it comes much later on in the story that Marlow begins to wise up to what is truly going on. He eventually is able to see past the propaganda and the talking up of this concept of imperialism. The structure of the novel contributes to the feel in this respect. Marlow is telling this story to someone else after all of the events of the novel have already taken place, thus he can contribute his own commentary along the way, breaking free from

“All children mythologize their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind, and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth; it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.” – Vida Winter, Tales of Change and Desperation (Setterfield). The two novels The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield, and Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte were written decades apart, yet they have similar elements. Wuthering Heights is a work of gothic fiction with some Victorian elements as well. Being that the two novels are so similar is it plausible that The Thirteenth Tale could be considered gothic fiction. It seems to fall under that category. They both use techniques such as the

Heathcliff shows more respect to Lockwood after he had been drinking a little bit. Since Lockwood was forced to stay he had to stay in a room at Thrushcross Grange . While he was asleep he got sick and the ghost of Catherine haunted him. When this happened he screamed and Heathcliff heard him and burst into the room and was surprised that he found Lockwood. Heathcliff was angry to find Lockwood in Catherine’s old room.

There is a lot of controversy over the book Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. Some people argue that when you read the book you are supposed to detach the main character Marlow from Conrad and others argue that Marlow and Conrad are connected. I argue the point that when you read the book you are supposed to connect Marlow's words to the author.

Marlow arrives at the Central Station and meets the company’s chief accountant. The chief accountant appears to be mean. The chief accountant mentions Mr. Kurtz, who is the first class ivory agent, a favorite amongst the company. He finds out that the steamship has been sunk and spends several months waiting for parts to repair it. The manager is concerned because he fears his position against Kurtz.

The stories in the book Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad and the movie Apocalypse Now directed by Francis Ford Coppola are very similar. The main characters in both are similar, but do have their differences, like who they were before they took the job, the settings they were put in, .

            Through the individual characters, Conrad creates the division between dark and light and black and white created by colonialism. Marlow and Kurtz can be as two halves of one soul. Throughout the tale, Marlow is disgusted with what he sees during his employment with the ivory company. He is shocked and angered at the horrible treatment of the

Heart of Darkness is written as a frame story, which is a story-within-a-story. The novel begins with Marlow and a few of his companions aboard a boat known as the Nellie in the Thames River in London. Marlow eases into his story about when he first began his sailing career; the story is told by him, but the unnamed narrator is the one recalling what Marlow says while he shares his earlier sailing days with the others.

Wuthering Heights has a double frame, as if its world is doubly removed from that of its readers, but Lockwood, the first narrator, moves from a confident detachment to the bewilderment of a fearful victim. He tries to interpret what he sees in his way in Wuthering Heights. Lockwood’s reaction to the dreams in the paneled bed that once belonged to Catherine Earnshaw, where Catherine has dreamt as well, has carved her name into the wooden panels, and had preserved parts of her childhood in a diary and Heathcliff’s dream, finally dying triumphantly in the very chamber where Lockwood had dreamed of Cathy struggling to enter is discussed in a grim manner in the beginning of the novel. The setting for their dreams make up part of the content: The paneled bed and its window appear as

In the winter of 1801, our major character or the protagonist of this tale, Lockwood, indicates up at Wuthering Heights daily make preparations with Heathcliff who is another dominant character on this tale, day-to-day rent the nearby manor. Heathcliff, the owner, makes no effort every day be fine and straight away will become a source of deep curiosity daily Lockwood. A blizzard forces Lockwood daily spend the night time at Wuthering Heights, and he has crazy nightmares entire with a wailing ghost named Catherine Lindailyn trying to come thru the window. So, now that Lockwood is settled inday-to-day his new house, he invitations the housekeeper, Ellen "Nelly" Dean, daily the story of the curious inhabitants of Wuthering Heights.

Upon meeting Mr.Heathcliff, Mr. Lockwood is face with a brooding and mysterious man. After spending an eerie night in Wuthering Heights due to a storm Mr. Lockwood becomes curious and intriged by his new landlord, his property and there history. Lockwood inquires to his house servant Nelly Dean to tell him the history behind Thrushcross Grange, The Heights and the elusive Mr.Heathcliff.

The “Heart of Darkness” has two narrators. One is presumably Conrad who is on Nellie alongside the second narrator, Marlow. It is evident since the former describes the latter. Soon a “change takes over” in this narrative style and Marlow takes the reins of narration by uttering the first line “And this also…has been one of the dark places of the earth.” With Marlow as the main narrator, Conrad interrupts him only a few times. “Yet---I let him run on”, Marlow began again” penned down Conrad. The substitution of narrators is so sudden that it immediately jolts the reader who had fled to the fiction land of Marlow’s yarn.